[mod_python] Another sessions problem...

Wed Mar 26 12:04:20 EDT 2008

Hello everyone

I've already did some testing with mod_python's session mechanism and so far it seemed to work nice. My latest test case doesn't work at all tho...

I have to scripts, sessiontest1.py and sessiontest2.py, both are directly in my "python-root" (the folder the publisher handler is using)

Sessiontest1.py:
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from mod_python import Session
import sessiontest2

secretText = "mysecret"

def index(req):
  myClassObject = sessiontest2.myClass()
  msg = myClassObject.add()
  req.session = Session.FileSession(req)
  req.session['test'] = 5
  req.session['meinKlassenObjekt'] = myClassObject
  req.session.save()
  return myClassObject.show(req.session.id())

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Sessiontest2.py
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from mod_python import Session

secretText = "mysecret"

def index(req):
    req.session = Session.FileSession(req)
    if req.session.is_new():
        return "Session is new: "+req.session.id()
    else:
        lala = req.session['test']
        myClassObject = req.session['meinKlassenObjekt']
        newVal = req.form.getfirst('button')
        cnt = myClassObject.add(newVal)
        req.session['meinKlassenObjekt'] = myClassObject
        req.session.save()
        return cnt
    return "default return"

class myClass:
    def __init__(self):
        self.counter = 0

    def add(self, val=1):
        self.counter = self.counter + val
        return self.counter

    def show(self, *value):
        msg = """
<html><body>
<form action='/python/sessiontest2.py' method='post'>
    <input name='counter' type='text' readonly value='%s'/>
    <input name='new' type='text' />
    <input name='button' type='submit' value='Add' />
</form>
<p>ID: %s</p>
</body></html>
        """ % (self.counter, value)
        return msg
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Here's what's happening:

I call the sessiontest1.py which creates a new session (for a fresh browser window), does some stuff with the class-object, saves the object (resp. the session) and then it returns the html site generated from that class.
When I submit that form the sessiontest2.py script is called and in my opinion it should load the previously created session (and do the stuff inside the 'else'). However, it always creates a new session instead of using the old one...

Maybe anyone got an idea what could be wrong? Would be really nice!

Greetings
Dominique